12 months ago
A Failure to Communicate
In theory, we live in a liberated age. People hook up all the time without fanfare. An abundance of apps promise to satisfy every sexual or romantic appetite. You’d expect …
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2 years ago
Masks and Masculinity: Gender, Collectivism & Problems of Authority in a Pandemic
The pandemic has largely been an unmitigated disaster, except for the successful application of mRNA vaccines. But from the perspective of psychology and political theory, it has been a fascinating …
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3 years ago
Two Versions of Politics: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
My first experience of homophobia was in Denmark. I’d visited a bar and met someone. He and I were walking the mostly deserted streets of Copenhagen’s gay neighborhood late at …
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4 years ago
To Laugh at Gilded Butterflies
The veiled plutocracy of the Obama administration has given way to the open corruption, scientific illiteracy, and kakistocracy of the Trump regime. Trump’s neo-fascist followers, in keeping with the time-honored …
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American History in the Age of Trump
The French philosopher Simone Weil once wrote a bit cryptically that “[w]ithout history there can be no sense of patriotism. We have only to look at the United States to …
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